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Look, I don’t want to drop any bombs here, but… there are only two genders.
I recognize that people born with the rare occurrence of being intersex or hermaphrodite are 1.7% of the population and a special case, but generally, there are two genders.
I am not writing this article to offend, attack, or harass anyone at my school or anyone who identifies as a different gender. Generally, I accept whatever anyone does as their own deal, and could care less if it doesn’t affect me or anyone else’s rights.
However, I find it rather hard to believe that all people who have claimed to identify with other genders actually were born that way. In my opinion, most of this new age romanticizing and obsession over what gender truly is comes from several factors: a confusion of personality and gender; the cultural influences we have like a certain Jenner because it’s really easy to access information through the internet; and general boredom of pedestrian, lackluster lives.
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Look, I don’t want to drop any bombs here, but… there are only two genders.”
I believe that people find themselves so ordinarily boring that they need to change a concrete aspect of their life just so they can have at least a moment where they can drastically change their existence. One may argue that gender is in your head not your parts, but dreams are also in your head. That doesn’t make them real.
To dig deeper into this issue I questioned many teachers at Bellwood-Antis, who teach subjects that coincide with the article I’m currently writing, and I received several different opinions. For instance, one teacher said on a biological level she would say there are three genders: male, female and intersex. She also said that even though chromosomes can be viewed it does not exactly express why some may be male or female yet feel like an entirely different gender.
For that question, I approached another teacher who explained to me that gender is an experience-based thing and that it is healthier really to be a boy and still experience some feminine things, as well as to be a girl and have masculine experiences. That still did not expressly mean there are more genders, only that not everyone needs or should be at some point a football player jock who never cries or a cheerleader, preppy girl. He also said there were several mental disorders relating to gender recognized by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and that transgender people can be
